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March 8, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Alright, I'm gonna admit it.
I'm gonna admit it.
It's petulant.
I agree before I tell you it's petulant.
But this is one of those days.
Here we're just starting the third hour of the program, and I have not yet played any of the audio excerpts from the secret video taken by James O'Keefe for the NPR guys.
As O'Keeffe was pretending to be an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
I want to tell you why I've waited until the third hour to do this.
When I sat down here at my broadcast complex today, I must have had easily a thousand emails, combined people I know and people I don't know.
Rush, you may not have heard about this.
Nothing gets my dander up.
I I I I so I know now what your email subject lines are now going to be.
I know I'm I'm asking for it now.
Rush, you may not have heard this.
Rush, you got, you've got to leave.
This is important, this is crucial, you've got to start with this.
Rush, you may not have heard.
On and on and on it went.
Others telling me, you have to do this first.
You've got to this is so my natural reaction was, I'll wait.
I may decide not to do it at all since everybody's heard it anyway, since everybody's talking about it.
There's no news value.
Of course, I realized that while people have heard it, they probably don't really know what to think about it totally till I've commented on it.
So what happened was James O'Keefe and the boys snuck in there.
Well, didn't sneak in there, they just they arranged a luncheon, they posed as potential Muslim donors to NPR.
This back in February 22nd in Washington.
They had the NPR Foundation president Ron Schiller, National Public Radio Director of Institutional Giving, Betsy Liley, talking with Ibrahim Qassam and Amir Malik, two people posing as members of the fictitious Muslim education center.
And Qassam says, so uh so you asked about our organization.
We contribute to a number of Muslim schools, Orthodox Muslim schools across the U.S. And more recently we contributed to some universities, so our original uh we were founded by a few members of the Muslim Brotherhood in America, actually.
So here is Ron Schiller, who is the NPR Foundation president.
What we all believe is that we don't have Muslim choices in our schools on the air.
I mean, it's the same thing that we faced look as a nation when we didn't have female voices.
The current Republican Party, the particular Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people's personal lives, and very fundamental Christian, and I wouldn't even call it Christian.
It's this weird evangelical kind of move to the Republican Party.
It's not gonna be the Republican Party that's been hijacked by this group.
That is Radicar, C C Sama for week people not just.
I mean, basically, they are they believe in white Middle America gun-toting.
I mean, it's pretty scary.
They're seriously clear.
I mean, it is so cliche.
It proves, ladies and gentlemen, the greatest comedy has to have elements of truth in it.
And you Schiller's gestures, the way he's gesticulating in this, if you see the video, it is like he he he gestures like a geisha.
I mean, it's as effeminate as it can be.
Did you say Mr. Lumba, the Mytherthiller look lefeminate?
Yes, sir, Mr. Newcastradi, I sure as heck did.
Looks like a geisha through all of this.
He's calling us the bitter clingers, but then did you notice here, O'Keefe and his buddy, you mean the radical racist Islamophobic tea party people?
This guy falls right the trap.
Damn right, that's what I mean.
The radical racist Islamophobic T people.
But this is where this is dangerous.
Because let's go back here to the beginning of this sound, but this NPR schlub.
What we all believe is that we don't have Muslim voices in our schools on the air.
Same thing as we face as a nation.
We didn't have female voices.
So just right there, you women.
This is how NPR looks at you and your issues.
Then he says the current Republican Party, particularly Tea Party, fanatically involved in people's personal lives.
Very fundamental Christian.
I wouldn't even call it Christian.
It's weird evangelical kind of movement.
The current Republican Party is not even a Republican Party, it's been hijacked.
You mean the radical racist Islamophobic Tea Party people?
I wonder, Mr. Schiller, have you ever heard of Sharia?
Mr. Schiller, you're the biggest dupe on the face of the earth.
You are the classic illustration of useful idiot.
You are on full display here as an absolute sponge.
Have you ever heard of Sharia law and what it is?
Do you have any curiosity?
Go look it up, Mr. Schiller.
Check out Sharia Law.
You want to come you you want to say the Tea Party is fanatically involved in people's personal lives, fundamental Christian, I would.
Ho.
By the way, Mr. Schiller, do Muslim outlets have a lot of female voices, especially those under Sharia law.
I mean, what?
You know, the new castrati seem to be breeding because this Schiller guy is a new castrati.
Are you fulfing off new Cathrati people, Mr. Well, no?
I'm just describing how you are.
You're like geishes.
You gesticulate like you're effeminate.
And here he's.
This is, I mean, the guy's a walking cliche.
And here he's at NPR.
He thinks he's one of the most Gary, one of the smartest, one of the one of the elite, ruling class.
This guy's the real smart guy.
You mean the radical racist Islamoph people?
And not just Islamophobic, but it's xenophobe.
Because NPR schlub sitting here, he's seeing visions of five million dollar donation there.
So then says, well, we've seen like certainly how the Muslim Brotherhood, for example, has been putraid.
You know, I'm glad that NPR will give voice to people.
And PBS as well.
You know, I'm glad they put the Rashid Khalidi on to give the point of view and will give the Hamas and Hezbollah view, in addition to the Israel view.
Now I've talked personally as opposed to wearing my NPR hat.
It feels to me as though there's a real anti-intellectual move on the part of a significant part of the Republican Party.
You know, in my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated fair and balance.
I am most disturbed by and disappointed by in this country.
Which is that the educated so-called elite in this country is too small a percentage of the population.
So that you have this very large uneducated part of the population that carries these ideas.
It's much more about anti-intellectualism than it is about the political.
Because a university also, by definition, is considered in this country to be liberal Even though it's not at all liberal.
That's restaurant noise.
Uh Ron Schiller, who's uh head of the uh uh National Public Radio Foundation, he's the president.
Not enough intellectuals out there.
Uh too many bitter clingers, uh so-called elite, too small a percentage of the population.
Uh this move is more about anti intellectualism.
There is a brilliant British historian by the name of Paul Johnson.
He was interviewed recently, I think Wall Street Journal.
I'm not, I think it was Wall Street Journal.
Doesn't matter where nobody needs to send me where it was.
What he said is what's important.
He praised people like Sarah Palin.
Courage.
Without courage, all the ideas in the world are worthless, he said.
We'll have the courage to stand behind them.
We'll have the courage to implement them.
Thank you.
And during the interview, the um the guy talking to Paul Johnson, well, you know, you really seem like an intellectual.
No!
No, no, no!
I'm not an intellectual.
The interviewer was stunned.
Why not?
Intellectuals put ideas before people.
That's not good.
People come before ideas.
And what he means by that is people are just pawns on a game board.
Pawns on the chest, but they've been moved around or what have you.
They don't.
They're not real.
Especially if they're not of the proper class.
So Mr. Johnson is talking about ideas.
Are fine and dandy, but people come first.
And leaders who motivate and inspire people with courage.
Those are the great leaders.
Not he didn't, he wasn't even talking about this guy.
Schiller, I'm just extrapolating here.
But this guy Schiller's not a leader of anything.
He's a coward.
He's an effeminate little waif sitting up there waxing eloquent about how woe is the country because not everybody's smart as he is.
While he's being duped.
He's in the middle of being duped here by a couple of people who have set him up royally.
Then of all the things he said, all the things that he said, they are inflammatory and they are harmful.
But the next is what is going to get him in trouble.
This next is what he is going to really regret about all this.
Because after talking about all the anti-intellectualism, not enough smart people, so forth and so forth.
Remember now, these two these two posers here posing as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
They want to give NPR five million dollars or some such thing.
So Schiller then continues.
The Republicans play off of the belief among the general population that most of our funding comes from the government.
Very little of our funding comes from the government.
They act as though all of us have just about 10% of the total station economy.
The total station economy is about 800 million dollars a year, and about 90 million comes from the federal government.
Frankly, it is very clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal government.
And that is what's going to come back and bite his tiny little geisha uh but we'd be better off without federal funding.
Huh.
Now he's out there, he's he's he's in his excuse would be, well, look, I'm trying to separate five million dollars from these guys.
Of course I'm gonna tell them it.
But this behind closed doors, this is what's gonna gnaw at this guy's geisha but I guarantee you.
You're listening here to the intellectual Ron Schiller.
So uh next, Qassam and Schiller have this exchange about Jewish people.
Jews do kind of control the media.
I mean, certainly the Zionists and the people who have the interest in swaying media coverage toward favorable direction of Israel.
Since you know, Palestine, the Palestine, Palestinian viewpoint is a red eye.
Palestinian viewpoint since NPR is one of the few places that has the courage to represent it.
There's kind of a joke that we used to call it National Palestinian radio.
Not too upset about it.
Maybe a little bit less Jewish influence of uh Jewish money in NPR, but um Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.
So um I don't actually find it.
The what exactly The Zionist or uh pro-Israel, even among funders.
Nobody really pro-Israel.
I mean, it's there in those who own newspapers, obviously.
But no one owns NPR.
So I actually Mr. Schiller has just said that there's a Jewish domination in people who own newspapers.
Did you hear that?
Did you hear that?
Now this coupled with Jews control the media except at NPR.
Jews control the media except in PR.
Now remember he's being duped here by a couple guys pretending to be Muslims.
So of course he's going to exempt NPR from being controlled by the Jews.
But the rest of the media is controlled by the Jews.
Ron Schiller, this brilliant unique.
Gee, wish we had more people like him, intellectual.
Head honcho, the NPR foundation.
Um the Jews do kind of control the media.
I mean, at least certainly the Zionists, the people that have the interests in swaying media coverage towards a fable direction of Israel.
In a sense, you know, Palestinian viewpoints, yeah, the red eye, Palestinian viewpoints is NPR is one of the few places has the courage to really present it.
It's kind of a joke.
We used to call it National Palestine Radio.
Oh, really?
That's good.
I like that.
I'm not too upset about my maybe a little less Jewish influence of Jewish money on NPR, but Zionist coverage has been quite substantial elsewhere.
So I don't actually find it at uh at NPR uh Zionist pro-Israel, even among funders.
It's there in those who own the newspapers, obviously, but uh, but no one who owns NPR, so uh I actually don't find it.
Who was it that caught hell the other day for saying this?
Oh, I'm sure Abe Foxman.
Uh-uh, but by the time this is all over, I will be the one.
Abe Fox is gonna send me a letter demanding an apology.
Oh, sure, I'm the one who will have to end up saying all this.
Vivian Schiller is Jewish, who runs all the PBS.
Vivian Schiller is Jewish.
I mean Ron Schiller might be too, for all I know.
Who was it?
Who was it caught hell recently for saying this kind of stuff?
Ah, I can't recall.
I got one more bite, but I have to take a commercial break.
We'll be back.
Okay, yesterday afternoon at the Washington Press Club, uh, National Press Club, the National Public Radio present CEO Vivian Schiller spoke about the future of public broadcasting.
QA.
Reporter said, Do you believe there's an imbalance in NPR terms of liberals and conservatives in the newsroom?
I think I know which side they like to have better represented there.
If the answer is yes, uh, what do you propose to do about it?
I will tell you that it maybe doesn't get as much attention, but we get a tremendous amount of criticism for being too conservative as well.
So uh for those that do criticize us for being liberal, you know.
I I ask them when I get that personally, I asked them to point to specific stories, and uh when they do, we take those very seriously.
Have we erred?
Absolutely, we have erred in the past.
But uh we make corrections and we always strive to do better.
Right.
And uh another question was uh how high would you say the risk is?
Ultimately, the deficit cutting environment seems to be pervasive in Washington right now.
How great is the risk to your enterprise as well as those interested in your well-being?
It is a very significant risk, and it's a risk to all of public broadcasting.
We take this very, very seriously.
It would have a profound impact, we believe, on our ability of public broadcasting's ability to deliver cultural programming and the arts to the audience.
She basically came out and said that federal funds are critical.
Schiller guy said, the truth be known, we get we don't need federal funds.
He said to the two guys pretending to be Muslims.
So the the full NPR statement on all this has now been released from Dana Davis Reim, senior vice president of marketing, communications, and external relations.
The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us To accept a five million dollar check with no strings attached, which we repeatedly refuse to accept.
We are appalled by the comments made by Ron Schiller in the video, which are contrary to what NPR stands for.
Mr. Schiller announced last week he's leaving NPR for another job.
So Schiller's uh gonna have to go find another group of intellectuals to hang around.
NPR has responded, and he's gone.
She was responding to, among other things, Schiller saying the current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, fanatically involved in people's personal lives, very fundamental Christian, and I wouldn't even call it Christian.
It's weird evangelical kind of uh move.
Racist, racist people.
So uh Schiller is uh leaving.
He's going to the Aspen Institute.
They referenced his recently announced departure for the Aspen Institute.
Mr. Schiller announced last week he's leaving NPR for another job.
The Aspen Institute.
There's a lot, there's a lot of aspen things out there.
You know, I was trying to think who who recently got chewed out for lighting into the Jews.
It was Charlie Sheen.
Charlie Sheen.
Before that, you know, Rick Sanchez.
Anybody heard from him since uh he went into his anti-Jewish rant on somebody's radio show.
Or uh television show.
So at any rate um, I guess he's I think it's Walter Isaacson runs the Aspen Institute.
He used to run Time Magazine, took a turn at CNN.
Although it it might be there's a bunch of Aspen things in that this might not be Isaacson's uh where Schiller is going.
Anyway, that's that.
Much more, plus your phone calls coming up right after this.
Your guiding light, Rush Limboss starting a million conversations over chatter.
Now back to the phones, Alan in Loule.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Welcome to EIB network.
Russ, you talked about courage earlier.
I I what frustrates me the most is why do we have wimpy candidates that will not tell it like it is.
And frankly, I don't understand why, because I don't understand what they're afraid of.
You can't.
I have my radio show.
Fox News is the popular O'Reilly has multiple.
Wait a second.
Wait, wait, wait, because I I've explained all this this week.
Getting an audience is a lot different than getting votes.
You cannot get votes from people that hate you.
People that hate you will watch you, will listen to you.
You gotta keep giving the haters a reason to hate you.
But the the pose off show that the country is center right, in my opinion, probably more right.
I understand that.
I understand.
Why do we campaign to the left?
I don't, I just it just frustrates me.
Well, I I wouldn't say that we're campaigning to the left.
What we're what we're talking about this week is uh the the people you're calling wimps.
I'm not gonna call them wimps.
They just they think it's safer to focus on policy differences rather than talk about philosophy.
See, I I think ideology ought to be part of a campaign.
I just do.
I just I do I'm not ashamed to be conservative.
I'm not ashamed to say I'm a Reaganite.
I'm not ashamed to say that I am a constitutional conservative.
Uh but you know No, I'm not a wimp.
I'm not saying these guys are wimps.
I'm saying that there is a they've got a strategy.
They they they they all, I think, believe in Obama.
We talked about this today.
Obama's all this universally popular, loved, liked guy.
They they think it's it's not gonna be productive.
Go after somebody who's well wiped.
My whole point is he's not well-wiped, and he's not warm and cuddly.
He's a cold calculating guy.
Um, you know, and mainstream media is still gigantic.
When you add up every newspaper in this country and every local television station, they're still gigantic compared to Fox News.
And so that's it's uh that that's what we've been discussing all week, Alan, is the belief here that that policy differences need to be the focus.
This on the f from from uh the the current crop of uh of candidates.
They think that's the best way to go about it.
Obama's policies have led to current economic circumstances, will lead to even worse economic circumstances.
Obama's policies will cause America's influence in the world to shrink.
Obama's policies are causing uh vast reduction of American exceptionalism, Obama's and more of it is going to blah, blah, blah.
But that's they just think that's the most effective way to communicate.
All right.
Question here from the official program observer.
What uh Snurley wants to know if any of the current crop came to my defense uh uh during the flap over I Hope He Fails.
No.
But Snurdley uh nobody in politics did.
A few media people did on uh on our select.
Nobody in politics came to mind.
I'm sure uh they were sweating that out.
I'm sure they were sweating bullets on that.
I guarantee you think, oh, geez, what is he saying this for?
Why is he creating this problem for us?
I'm sure that's what the political class was saying.
I don't think, Snurdly, that too many of those people even today think it was the right way to go about it.
That's I don't believe I'm dead serious.
I don't I think most in the political class today do not think, I probably still wish I hadn't said, I hope he fails.
Uh and most of them uh would not certainly pick up the uh the banner.
I can be wrong, I mean, it's just I'm just because they it theirs is a different job than this one is, and I am the first to understand this.
Getting votes a far different prospect than getting an audience for a media person.
No, Snardly, they don't think that.
You know, here's what I'm hearing, folks in the IFB, you can't hear.
Snurdley is saying it.
My claim that I hope he fails is what was the icebreaker and opened up the avenue for the rest of our party to start criticizing him.
Uh I don't know how to say this.
I don't quite know how to say this.
So I don't want to burst your bubble, but that's not at all how they look at that, nor do they look at me that way.
They don't uh guys I'm talking to do not look at me as an ally.
They they look at me as not just me.
I mean a lot of the conservative media don't look at me as an ally.
They they look at me as uh keep that out of our way.
I think it's not personal.
I don't I don't take any of it personally.
One thing I've learned over the course of my life, not just in this career, but as a human being, one thing I've learned is you have to be honest about who you are.
The last like I people ask me, in fact, here's the the real beginning of this was I remember when I really idolized George Will and William Buckley, and I first got a chance to meet them.
You know, I'm I'm sitting at home, not having yet met them and wondering about them, and I when I got the chance to talk to them, I asked them, because I I had uh my own impressions of them as being crucially important to the formulation of opinion in the country uh uh having a great, great impact on policy events and so forth.
And I remember I asked them, George Will first, you ever sit at home late at night, family's gone to bed, and you ever take stock, feel proud about what you've done and the influence you have, and and Will just poo-pooed that, made it sound like it was sort of a silly question, and said, I don't think of myself like that at all.
I've I'm I've thinking about what I have to do tomorrow.
And Buckley didn't say that exact thing, but it was somewhat similar.
I have people asking me that now.
I've had I've uh or if they don't ask me, they treat me that way.
And I do not think of my I I pfft.
I'm looked, I you know what I th I think that most people out there look at me as a necessary evil.
You know, I'm I'm there, and there's nothing they can do about it.
So I'm I'm someone they have to maneuver around and accommodate for and allow for, but not be guided by, certainly not.
Ain't no way.
And I don't want to burst your bubble because you're sitting in there thinking that's how I'm viewed by everybody out there, it's not that way.
It isn't it it it isn't that way.
And you but you gotta be honest who I don't care who you are and what you do for a living, whatever you've got to be honest with yours about who you are.
Who was it?
Uh Clint Eastwood, after you just shot somebody, one of the spaghetti westerns, some man's got to know his limitations.
I mean, you can't you're gonna sit around and lie to yourself about how big you are and how important you are.
You are headed for the biggest wake-up call that could crush you psychologically that you could ever face.
Uh that's why I have to, sometimes like I kind of laugh at these people on on like.
You can tell.
I don't care who it is, you can tell when somebody's really full of themselves and really thinks that they're the cat's meow, as my mom used to say, and then you realize their audience might be 500,000 people, and in the big scheme of things, nobody's ever heard of them.
Much less cares, but they're sitting there telling themselves how big and important it is living a lie.
And I uh I've always tried.
It was Magnum Force.
That was that was the dirty hair was not, it was not the spaghetti westerns, it was uh it was Magnum Force.
Yeah, Eastwood.
And dirty herring.
Look, folks, uh married people, they don't really have dates, they have encounters.
You know, and and some are pleasant and some aren't.
But uh you know, by the way, today is International Women's Day.
That's the communist version of Valentine's Day, but it it it is.
It's it's International Women's Day.
And where did I read?
I'm not even sure if I printed it out.
There's a story somewhere on how the women's movement has turned men into just a bunch of mush, starting in colleges and so forth.
It's it's a bunch of alpha women and a bunch of men who've uh been beaten down into not willing to be men anymore, it's not worth trouble.
That women coming out of college they're more educated, they're more motivated, they own more property than your average male graduated from college today.
It's the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, and that's why that story was written.
I f might have been at National Review Online.
Heck, I don't remember.
I read so much, and sometimes I don't print it all out, so I don't recall.
Nobody needs to send it to me.
Show's almost over.
Jerry in Halifax, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, uh Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I uh my subject is Obamacare.
Obamacare.
And my observation is this.
The CBO scored Obamacare while it was being debated in the House and the Senate.
Now waivers to over a thousand companies and organizations has have been issued.
So they don't have to comply with the law.
So my question is shouldn't the CBO rescore that legislation again in the middle of the year?
Not only of these thousands not only for those reasons, but something that we all said at the moment it was happening.
$500 billion in Medicare cuts, we said there weren't gonna be $500 billion in Medicare.
Remember, they were $500 billion in Medicare cuts in order to get them under a trillion bucks.
And we said there's no way a bunch of Democrats are gonna get rid of $500 billion in Medicare spending.
Isn't it gonna happen?
And we looked at it, we looked at it.
They're double counting it.
They double counted it, and Sabelius admitted it.
When is this?
Last Thursday, it was on Capitol Hill.
John Shimkis, Republican Illinois.
Your own actuary has said that you can't double count your law cut five hundred billion in Medicare, then you're also using the same five hundred billion saying you're funding health care.
You're cutting it and funding it.
Now, which is it?
And here's what she said.
Sir, the Affordable Care Act has 12 years to the Medicare Trust Fund, according to every actuary, and the $500 billion represents a slowdown in the growth rate of Medicare over 10 years from what was projected at 8% to a Medicare?
Is it using it save Medicare or are you using it to fund health care reform?
Which one?
Both.
The gentleman, so you're double counting.
I yield back my time.
Double counting.
They used it to show a cut, and then they added it back in in another part of the bill for spending.
So right there alone, in addition to the whole bill being unconstitutional now, right there alone, the whole notion on which this thing was scored, has been admitted to as a fraud by no less than the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Zabelius.
Voila.
And of course, again, just to remind you, another thing we told you when it was happening.
A lot of people knew it.
Other people, this is just news today, but it is uh it's been known for quite a while.
Yet here's Paul Johnson in the Wall Street Journal.
Sarah Palin is in the good tradition of America, which this awful political correctness business goes against.
She's got courage.
That's very important in politics.
You have all the right ideas and the ability to express them.
But if you haven't got guts, if you haven't got courage, the way Margaret Thatcher had courage and Ronald Reagan come to think of it, what's the central value?
Courage is the central value of American politics.
If you don't have that, the rest is irrelevant.
Paul Johnson, brilliant British historian and journalist.
And we will see you tomorrow, my friends.
Be good.
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